Could you please tell me what is the significance of property name="local"
in org.apache.geronimo.farm.config.BasicNodeInfo.
When I give "local"= true in clustering environment and try to deploy one
application, I am getting error like "Configuration already exists". I have
also checked cluster-repository dir of app server dir, one new empty dir has
been created there.

I have followed these steps:

1. Installed two geronimo instances A and B at different paths

2. Made the following changes to Geronimo A
For var\config\config-substitutions.properties
clusterNodeName=NODE --> clusterNodeName=NODE-A

For var\config\config.xml, add the following contents to module:
org.apache.geronimo.configs/farming/2.1.4/car

I have checked in the app server dir and new dir
%Location%\NODE_A\cluster-repository\org\geronimo is created now but its an
empty one.

Geronimo_A Log output:

2009-11-09 16:05:46,875 ERROR [RepositoryConfigurationStore]
%Location%\NODE_A\cluster-repository\org\geronimo\samples\hello_G_SLAVE\2.1.1.2\hello_G_SLAVE-2.1.1.2.car
is not an empty directory
2009-11-09 16:05:47,171 ERROR [Deployer] Deployment failed due to
java.io.IOException: See nested
at
org.apache.geronimo.farm.deployment.BasicClusterConfigurationStoreClient.install(BasicClusterConfigurationStoreClient.java:122)
at
org.apache.geronimo.farm.deployment.BasicClusterConfigurationStoreClient.install(BasicClusterConfigurationStoreClient.java:78)
at
org.apache.geronimo.farm.deployment.MasterConfigurationStore.install(MasterConfigurationStore.java:128)